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WIT AND HUMOR.
The " Lady Slipper " is the name of
a vessel just launched at Boston. She
must be intended for the whaling ser
vice. I shouldn't care much about the
bugs," said a thin, pale lodger to his
landlady, "but the fact is, ma'am, I
hain't got the blood to spare."
Some day an editor will lose a few
dollars by a bank bursting, and then
Jou'll hear a newspaper howl at the
oose manner in which such institutions
are conducted. Nbrrktovcn Herald.
"Captain," said a son of Erin, as a
ship was nearing the coast in inclement
weather, " have ye a alminik on board?"
"No, I haven't." "Then, bejabers,
we shall have to take the weather as it
comes."
A woiiAN's-BioiiTS orator f ranklj de
clared that the first time a coat-sleeve
encircled her waist she seemed to be in
a pavilion built of rainbows, the window-sills
of which are composed of JEo
lian harps.
Learned professors know about 30,-
000 words: children of two from 200 to
704; ordinary people, 90,000; book
agents, 9,999,99. When they learn
the word "nuit" their education will
be complete.
Old gent to boy (who is smoking
the end of a cigar he has picked up)
" Ugh, for shame, throw that nasty
thing away." Boy: " What, for you to
pick up and smcke, eh ? Gararn, I
knows yer ! London run..
Tourist (to a friend) "As to that,
my boy, one year I drank nothing bnt
milk." Friend " Indeed! I have
known you a long time, but I don't re
member that. What year was it?"
Tourist" My first I" Funny Folks.
A D anbury base-ball enthusiast is
getting up a ball of iron filled with ni-tro-glycerine,
which will exjlotle on
being caught, and tear the c itcher as
under. This will be more wearing on
a club than the ball in present use, but
it is more humane.
" Don't make a fool of yourself with
that girl now, Tom; you know love's
blind," said his cantious parent.
" That's all bosh," said superior Tom.
" Love's not blind at all; why I see ten
times at much in that girl as you do."
Two Irishmen were talking about an
accident, when the following colloquy
occurred: " Shure, how is the man
that was hurt ? " " An he's no bether."
"Is he conscious?" " Yis, lie's con
scious, but devil a thing does he know."
In Texaa, recently, a judge broke
down with emotion while sentencing
one Longly, a notorious desperado, to
be hanged for murder. Longly was
surprised at this, and remarked, on go
ing baok to jail, " I feel sorry for the
judge."
Scene, yard in rear of house: Ma
ternal voice from third story to young
America playing below " Thomas,
come in this minute." Momentary
pause. "Thomas, come in; I shan't
speak again." " Y. A." Well, I wish
yon wouldn't ! "
In response to written orders, the ex
pressmen of Meriden, Conn., were sent
in great haste to take the trunk of L.
E. Phant to the depot. The landlord
took the joke kindly at first, but as ex
press wagon after express wagon drove
up the joke became monotonous.
They had private theatricals at New
port, and a criticism thereupon de
scribes Colonel George E. Warning as
a " beautiful but too cold lover." His
wife was playing in the same piece, and
it is unjust to censure a man who hadn't
a fair chance. Detroit Free Pres..
"Are the Smiths back ?" inquired
Mrs. Stayby, who hasn't been out of
town this season. " Yes'm," replied
the cook, "and Mrs. Gabv got back
from Wales last night." " Then.Mary,
you may open the front shutters and
let them know that ice're got back too." '
" Paddy, my boy," said a gentleman
to an Irishman, whom he observed fish
ing away at a favorite pool, " that must
be a fine pool for trout." "Faith, and
sure it must be that same, for I have
been standing here these three hours,
and not one of 'em will stir out of it."
"Come pa," said a youngster just
home from school, " how many peas are
there in a pint ? " " llow can any bo Jy
tell that, you foolish boy?" "I can,
every time. If you don't believe it,
try me." " Well, how many are there,
then?" "Just one pea in every pint,
pa."
New York Commercial Adrertiser.
"Who are Life's Heroes?" feelingly
asks a newspaper poet. We can answer
that. They are the men who noting the
near approach of Fall weather, cau go
up in the attic and look calmly upon a
pile of stovepipe elbows without a ?lmd
der. Lord Majo imported a female emu.
While his lordship was away from home
she laid an egg, and his perplexed bail
iff, writing to inform him of the occur
rence, began his letter as follows: " In
the absense of your lordship I put the
egg under the greatest goose I could
find."
Visitor " Isn't it terrible to think
that the vessel yonder may dash on the
rocks, and every soul on board perish!"
Old Salt " Y'es; but it's more terrible
to think that maybe the crew's a work
ing themselves to death, and perhaps
there's not a bit o'backer aboard the en
tiro craft ! "
Operatic Manager " You sav your
prima donna has a magnificent voice ? "
Prima donna's agent " Simply mag
nificent; high-cultured and of great vol
ume. Would fill the Academy of Mu
sic grandly." Manager "Ah! That's
just what I want it to do, to fill the
Academy at a dollar and a half a seat ! "
The following neat reply of Miss
Stevens is reported from London to an
Englishman who asked her: " What
change do you see in Society since you
were last here ! " Replied the heiress :
"The only difference is, that many peo
ple that I left unmarried are now mar
ried, but more that I left married are
unmarried."
A IiOver of good coffee entered a gro
cery recently, and holding up a hand
ful of ground coffee from a big can, he
inquired: "Are there any beans in
this coffee ?" No. sir," promptly re
plied the grocer. " How do you
know? "asked the man. "Because I
washout of beans and had to put peas
in ! " was the answer.
The wit of Secretary Evarts, says
Mrs. Grundy, seems to have descended
to his children. He said to a friend
here: " I have received a letter from
one of my little girls, and she writes:
Dear papa Thank you verv kindly
for the donkey you sent mebut he's
- so lonely. Won't you soon be home,
papa? ' "
Cassias M. Clay Kills bis Man.
Hon. Cassius M. Clay, formerly Min
ister to Russia under President Lin
coln's administration, recently shot and
killed a negro man, Perry White. The
affair, which occurred on the farm of
Gen. Clay, near Richmond, Ky., is thus
described by a correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer:
" Gen. Clay has had in his employ as
cook for some time a negro woman,
the mother of Perry WThite. A few
days ago he discovered that she had
been robbing him of his silver plate,
his table service and other articles, and
he discharged her. Being a very vio
lent woman, she swore vengeance
against her employer. Previous to this
Perry had also been ordered from the
place, being known in the neighbor
hood as a negro who lived by stealing,
who had frequently been implicated in
robberies, and was otherwise notorious
as a bold , daring man and desperate ne
gro. The negro, on his own account,
and to avenge his mother, had resolved
to kill Clay, and a letter written by
White, containing a threat to carry out
his murderous purpose was shown to
Clay. The latter had anticipated
trouble with the negro, and for ten" days
past when he went out on his farm he
carried his pistol. This morning Gen.
Clay mounted his horse, with a small
white boy behind him, and started to a
negro church in the neighborhood,
where he intended to hire a cook in
place of the one discharged. He had
proceeded but a short distance from his
house when he saw a loose horse in a
pasture near the roadside. Just as he
was passing, the little boy remarked,
'There is Perry White,' looking in the
direction of the horse, which had nei
ther bridle nor saddle on. Clay saw
the negro in the act of hiding or dodg
ing behind the animal. Knowing White
had no business there, and believing
that he had come for some bad purpose
while all the other darkies were at
church, and at once supposing that the
negro intended to make an attack upon
him from the cover, Clay leaped down,
and, passing in front of the horse, con
fronted the negro and ordered him to
throw up his hands. The negro
obeyed, sinking to the ground. Clay
then talked to him roughly, ordering
him from the place, and telling him if
he moved from his position until he
(Clay) got on his horse he would kill
him. .
" Clay then turned and started to his
horse, when the negro rose suddenly
and made at Clay, at which time the
latter drew his pistol and fired twice.
Both balls took effect, one in the neck
and the other in the breast, and the ne
gro fell dead. Gen. Clay immediately
rode to town and gave himself into the
hands of an officer of the law."
How tho Czar's Soldiers Obey.
Of the Russian peasant's military dis
cipline and unquestioning submission
to his superiors, says the Examiner, a
characteristic proof was afforded to some
correspondents with Col. Yolshine's
troops on their way to Warsaw after the
route of the Poles under Lelewel, at
Batorsch, in August, 18G4. Ono of the
officers was especially loud in his
praises of the discipline of the Russian
soldier; and, to prove the truth ot his
assertion, llff called one of the men out
of the ranks, and saying, " Ivan, it is
my pleasure to punish thee," dealt him
a sounding box on the ear and sent him
back again. The man simply saluted
and obeyed. At the remark that it
would not be surprising if the officer
were to be shot in the back at the first
engagement, he laughed and called Ivan
forth again, and said to him, " Ivan,
why did I punish thee just now ? " "I
don't know," was the reply. " But you
know I must have had a reason for it."
"Of course," the man answered, "you
must have had an excellent reason for
it.". " Yes," observed the officer, "I
did it to prove to these gentlemen here,
our old enemies of Sebastopol, that the
Russian soldier is unapproachable for
discipline by any other nation. Was I
not right?" "By God! master, you
were," replied the man with a broad
grin of triumph. There is no exagger
ation in these incidents. The indnr
ance a sort of submissive fatalism of
the common Russian is most remarka
ble. It is, in fact, more or less a spe
cial feature of the Tartar and Sclav;
and, being thus indifferent Jto suffering
themselves, they are indifferent to it in
others.
SiiiVEit. Dr. Linderman, the Direct
or of our mints, is enough of a silver
man to believe that the fall in the price
of silver during the past year is no ar
gument against its use as money in
deed he thinks the main cause of its
depreciation was the attempt not to nse
it as money. He gives the following as
the cause of the fluctuations, ranking
in importance in the order mentioned:
First, change from the silver to the
gold standard in Germany and Scandi
navia; second, use of a forced paper
currency in Russia and Austria and oth
er States; third, diminished demand
for exports to India and China; fourth,
the limitations placed on coinage of sil
ver by countries of the double stand
ard; fifth, increased population.
Increase in production is the most in
significant of all.
A clergyman was annoyed bv people
talking and giggling. "lie "paused,
looked at the disturbers, and said: "I
am always afraid to reprove those who
misbehave, for this reason. Some years
since, as I was preaching, a young man
who sat before ine was constantly laugh
ing, talking and making uncouth grim
aces. I paused and administered a se
vere rebuke. After the close of the
service a gentleman said tome: 'Sir
you have made a great mistake; that
young man is an idiot.' Since then I
have been afraid to reprove those who
misbehave themselves in chapel, lest I
should repeat that mistake and reprove
another idiot." Daring the rest of the
service there was good order.
An old negro named Pete who was
very much troubled about his sins said,
" Oh, m&ssa. I'm sich a great sinner ! "
" But, Pete," said his master, " you are
foolish to take it so much to heart." "I
know de reason, massa," said Pete
" when you go duck-shooting and kili
one duck and wound another, don't you
run after de wounded duck?" "Yes
Pete," said the master, wondering what
was coming next, " Well, massa, dat is
de way wid you and me; de debbil has
got you, sure; but as he am not so sure
ob ma he chases dis chile all de time."
Sheridan's father was one day re
gretting that they were no longer styled
" O'Sheridan," as they had been for
merly. "Indeed, father," replied the
son, "we have no moro right to 'O' than
anybody else, but we owe everybody."
-he Massacres in Ronmelia.
A SERIES OF HOBBOBS MURDER, DESO
LATION AND STARVATION VICTIMS BY
THOUSANDS.
Philippopolis is, as you know, main
ly a Bulgarian town, and it was natural
that the majority of refugees who had
found shelter within its vails should be
Bulgarians. In company ith a Greek
doctor who has devoted himself with
rare energy and self-devotion to the am
elioration of mfsery about him, I sit
ed the various hospitals, all of which
were overcrowded. I saw in these
places such sickening sights of horror
as are not frequently to be met with,
thank Heaven, even in war. The suf
ferers were all women and children.
They had fled from the Bulgarian vil
lages which used to surround Kasaulik,
but'which are now leveled to the ground.
Among them all there was but one man.
No other male adult had escaped from
the fearful massacre perpetrated by the
Turkish irregulars. There were children
who had never learned to walk who
were horribly cut and mangled. I saw
one child of (3 months only who had
been shot through the jaws by a wretch
who had murderously pursued its moth
er. There was a woman in the Greek
hospital whoso right hand had been
chopped off by another savage; who
found that the readiest way to the gold
bracelet which she, in common with
most women of her people, wore as her
wedding dower.
The people received us with the live
liest signs of gratitude, kissing our
hands, kneeling before us and weeping.
Some of them who had been in times of
peace among the more well-to-do took
us into their houses and showed us the
desolation to which they had been re
duced. They showed us the blood
stains on wall and floors which marked
the spot of the murder of their male re
lative?. One dreadful story, which has
since been amply confirmed, was told
us of the death of an elderly Bul
garian gentleman who had the misfor
tune to be second cousin to the Russian
Vice Consul at Philippopolis. The rela
tionship was known to the Zeibecks and
Circassians, as he himself was perfect
ly aware that if ever those savages oc
cupied the town his death was certain.
He resolved to defend himself, at least,
and to that end secured arms. His
house was broken into, and after a brief
but desperate resistance he was seized
and bound. A huge Bashi-Bazouk set
him down upon the floor, and then de
liberatively hacked him to pieces, pro
longing the sufferings of the unhappy
man as long as possible, and pausing
after the infliction of each wound to
watch the effect of his stroke, and re
joicing at every expression of agony
which his cruelty succeeded in wresting
from his victim. The barbarity was
perpetrated in the presence of the man's
female relatives, who were compelled
to stay and witness it.
Quitting Carlova, we made our way
to Calofre along a road which led us
through the lower ranges of the Balk
aus. Calofre was once a place of 10,
000 inhabitants. We found it a still
smoldering heap of ruins, without a sin
gle roof remaining, or a single whole
wall left standing. The stench of burn
ed carcasses and rotten men and cattle
was in places almost insupportable.
The place is one of indescribable aud
fearful desolation.
We returned then to our camp of the
previous night, packed our- traps, and
pushed on to Sopot, which wo reached
at nightfall. "What remains of the town
stands under a sheer wall of mountain,
and as we first saw it beneath the ris
ing moon the aspect of the place was
beyond description weird and desolate.
Our earlier impression was that it was
as complete a ruin as Calofre, but in
the morning we found that many of the
houses remained standing, and that
there was a hundred people in the town.
They were all that were left out of 5,
000, and, except for those who had been
killed before their eyes, they could
make no guess as to what had become
of their old townsfolk. They told us
that tho Balkans, which overlook the
town, were thicklv strewn with the bod
ies of men, women, and children who
had been slain by the Circassians in at
tempting to escape. The destruction
of the people of this place and of Calo
fre had" been so fearfully complete that
in all mv travels through hospitals and
places of refuge further south I had not
met, to my knowledge, witn one creat
ure who had escaped from either of
them. These are at present the two
most awful examples of the fashion in
which war is made in this miserable
country. The conntry is already do
populated, and there are no longer
roofs and walls to cover a tithe of that
gigantic army of refugees which is scat
tered in hundreds and in thousands
throughout the length and breadth of
the land. I myself have seen more
than 20,000 homeless fugitives, and I
have seen a very small portion. When
the statistics of this war come to be
figures.
When I passed through Adrianople
published they wiliamonot to appalling
on my return journey I found the hang
ing going on with more than their old
rapidity. On the day of my arrival
thirty Bulgarians were strung up in
the streets, and as I drove to the rail
way station on the following morning
the executions were still going on, and
my carriage passed one newly-hanged
man who had not ceased to struggle.
A mere tripod had been set up as a gal
lows, and half the street was blockaded
by it. A knot of women and children
stood about this edifying spectacle,
which is now growing so familiar that
a hanging excites no more popular at
tention than would be created by the
merest trifle of street interest in New
Y'ork or London. Xew York Times.
Jefferson to his Daughteb. I am
glad to learn, my dear Patsy, that you
are employed in things new and good.
Of all the cankers of human happiness,
none corrodes with so silent yet so
baneful an influence as indolence. Ex
ercise and application produce order in
our affairs, health of body and cheer
fulness of mind. If at any moment,
my dear, you catch yourself in idleness,
start from it as you would from the pre
cipice of a gulf. I do not like your say
ing that you are unable to read Livy
but .with the aid of a master. It is a
part of the American character to sur
mount every difficulty by resolution.
My expectations from you are high,
but not higher than you may obtain.
Nobody in this world can make me so
happy or so miserable as you can.
Think nothing is insurmountable and
you will be all that I wish you to be.
Affectionately, T. J.
When I lost my wife, every family in
the town offered me another, but when
I lost my horse no one offered to make
him good.
Tne "Bone and Sinew"
Of our country have often especially
about election time been made the subject of
laudation ; but when those useful parts of the
human structure become too visible in conse
quence of leanness, thej can scarcely be called
graceful. The eye delights not to dwell upon
angles and ridges in either man or woman.
Moreover, extreme emaciation is a sign of im
perfect digestion and consequent poverty of the
blood. Both these evils are remedied by Hos
tetter's Stomach Bitters, which render digestion
and assimilation certainties, in consequence of
Which the blood acquires richness and the body
tub) tan ce. Thus are the hollow places tilled up
and the angles rounded off. Through the instru
mentality of this peerless aid to digestion and
Iromoter of physical well being, the body rapid
v gains in vigor, color returns to the hollow
cheek, the appetite improves, nervous symp
toms vanish, ahd a healthful impetus is given to
everv vital function.
Life Insiirnnre Claims Adjusted.
James Munsell, Jr., has established
special facilities in the East for collecting all
kinds of claims on policies in Eastern Life Insur
ance Companies in liquidation. Parties who
have already filed claims direct witli ltecoivers,
will find it greatly to their advantage to place
the collection of their dividend in the hands of
this agency, which will relieve them of all fur
ther trouble, and settlement nil! )? made with
claimants at this office.
It is a matter of great importance) that claim
ants should place their policies only in the hands
of persona of experience in the insurance busi
ness, in order that their policies may be properly
valued, and their iaterest efficiently as well as
faithfully represented. Appreciating this fact,
several attorneys-at-law in San Francisco and
elsewhere, have placed the claims of their clients
in the hands of tbis agency for presentation with
the Courts and Receivers in Eastern States.
For the direction and information of claim
ants in the interior, who are unacquainted with
us, special reference is made to the Managers of
the principal Life and Fire Insurance Companies
in San Francisco. Parties holding policies must
take prompt action in Order to protect their in
terests and secure their claims, because it is ab
solutely imperative that claims be filed in the
East within a specified time, which in some in
stances has nearly expired.
Office, 224 Sansome Street, corner California,
over the Bank of British Columbia, San Fran
cinco. Iron and the Unman lllooil.
Iron, the oldest of all metals, is also
the most widely dispersed throughout all na
ture. There is not a plant, nor an animal, nor
an iota of the mineral kingdom, but what con
tains its proportion of iron, and the human
blood is indebted to iron for one of its largest
component parts.
Iron has been employed for ages as a medi
cine, but never have its virtues leen so fully
appreciated, nor has it ever been so universally
demanded as at the present time.
Our fathers of old were but littlu acquainted
with therapeutics. If they were ailing, " too
much blood " was the verdict, and they had re
course to bleeding as a general panacea ; while
the church was constantly preaching abstinence
and fasting.
Tenipm'a mutantur, et wis inula ovtr in illis.
Our medical practitioners have well nigli for
gotten the free use of the lancet, and our
churches, realiziDg the constantly growing
physical impoverishment of our race,, have
lapjed in the enforcement of their command
ments. Indeed, the results of our civilization
with its crowded cities aud sedentary habits
compels us to adopt an entirely different
treatment. Instead of weakening our system
by the barbarous practice of bleeding, it is our
imperative duty in all cases to purify and en
rich the blood.
The most powerful agent for this purpose is
iron. The medical profession have no doubt of
this. Iron determines the principal action of
life and gives to the blood that necessary quan
tity of red globules which constitutes tiie heal
thy vitality of the individual. Its use quickly
restores the appetite and renders to the com-,
plexin a healthy appearance, It is common to
see ierons, hitherto perfect images of death,
acqui.u the health and ruddy glow of the most
robust.
But if iron produces such wonderful results
in all cases of anemy, chlorosis, amenorrhea,
impoverishment of the blood, general debility,
premature txhaustion from whatever cause, the
choice of the ferruginous preparation to be used
must be made with groat care ; some prepara
tions being insolluble produce indigestion
others, owing to certain salts, cause constipa
tion or tho opposite, slacken the appetite, black
en the teeth, possess a disagreeable odor and
many other inc nveniences.
There is now being introduced into this coun
try a French preparation of Iron, known in
France as Jiiche.tse da Sang here it is called
Bed Blood which we can recommend as pos
sessing all the virtues of iron without any of
the vile ingredients or bad effects of common
preparations. It is indeed the invigorating
tonic par excellence. C. Melquioxd, 415 San
some street, San Francisco, is the agent for the
United States. To bo had of all the principal
chemists. Price, $1.25.
California Oil Land).
Mb. O. H. Brooks, a gentleman of
practical experience, has fnlly investigated the
oil lands of California and pronounces them
equal in richness and quality of pra.u tion to
the celebrated fields of Pennsylvania. He is
now forming a company, with headquarters at
405 California street, Sin Francisco, for the im
mediate commencement of work.
See adver-
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)ln, lieneral .Sherman,
Wife ot the General of the United States Army,
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liheumatic Remedy for friends suffering with
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like magic." Send for circular to Helphenstine
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on this coast has been conducted in a way which
attained more Importance to large manufacturing
profits than to honest weight and good quality, ren
dering competition in the Soap trade little le tban
a rivalry in
UASCALITY.
Boxen containing less than eleven pounds of worse
than worthless trash, are boldly marked and sold as
llara IS Pound," and wretched combi
nation of caustic soda and putrid grease, taken from
the diseased carcases of dead animals are unblush
ingly pressed upon the trade and the people as "the
bent family soaps," and to supply the deflclency re
sulting from Incompetence and the use of refuse
materials, mineral substances of the most hurtful
character are added, and while such stuff may, after
a fashion, supply the place of
12,-.1 SOAP,
It does so at the expense of the fabrics, hand
Hdd benllb of those who use suck compounds.
Meoloal men tell us that the skin is a powerful ab
sorbent, and poisonous compounds in soaps have
been known to spread from the hands over the en
tire body. Just as a touch of poison oalc in one place
will he carried from head to foot of the peison poi
soned, aud many women who suffer constantly
from a dry, bun inir skin, and who find their per
sonal appearance disfigured by discoloration, will
frequently Hurt the predisposing cause ot their mU
fortune in the compound- which are made to sup
ply the place of TKUK SOAl for laundry, kitchen,
bath and other household purposes.
THINK OF IT.
Think of tender Infant", children and delicate wo
meu being constantly swathed In garments, everv
thread of which Is permeated with the putrid poi
sons of diseased fat and dangerous mineral sub
stances, which are taken up by perspiration aud ab
sorbed Into the skin and circulation, endangering
health aud the very life of all ! Yes, think of this,
and then decide, whether you will pay a fair price
for a PUKE ARTICLE or ten times the value of an
apparently cheap one, the use of which U ever at
tended with actual loss and danger to health and
comfort.
Such are thedangers to beapprehended in the use
of the "cheap" sops with which the markets are
flooded, but none theless dangerous are many which
are heralded forth and sold at even extravagant
prices, under attractive names, leading people to
believe that they will wash well without rubbing,
in ice-cold water, or bleach clothing as white us
snow by magical qualities, unknown to the science
of soap. The very fact of soaps possessing these
so-called magical qualities. Is conclusive evidence
that thev contain substances which are Injurious to
clothing and dangerous to health, and should be
avoided under all circumstances. To speak In
I,TJ.VTN TERMS,
Good, honest, reliable soap can only be made from
pure materials, combined after proper methods, by
those skilled In the art of soap-making, and we now
offer to consumers, through the trade, an article
which we guarantee to be strictly pure and made
only from the very best retloed materials. Ask
your Grocer for
S.1ISTBI, LiXY V COS
Peerless Soap!
And take no other. The pi lwls as low as a pure ar
ticle can be supplied for. and its use will always se
cure the best re.-ults and remove ull danger of con
tamination. DESCRIPTION :
To guard purchasers against imposition, we deg
crlbe our soap as follows : It is a boilud hob p. made
on the most approved chemical principles, from the
best refined miiteriuls. It Is of that rich light straw
color, obtained oulvbythe most skillful combina
tion f the finest raw materials. It is well seasoned
and compactly pressed Into cakes of of a pound
each, with "HjilTII. l.l'CY & tXJ.. PEERLESS
SOAP," pressed Into the cake on one side, Rnd
'.SMITH. LLCV & CO., 4oT. FRONT ST.. M. F.."
on the other. Each cake is enclosed in a neat red
wrapper, with appropriate printed matter thereon.
and every care has been taken to turn out an arti
cle which cannot fall to give full satisfaction. To
KNOW ITS VALUE,
It must bt used. So ask your Grocer for " Smith,
Ll'cv t Cn'8 I'keri.kms Soap," and do not be put
off with others which are said to be as good. Jtcan
be retailed for less than the wholesale cost of East
ern soaps of equal quality and weight, and as liomt
manufacturers we confidently ex pect that the trade
and the consuming public will give us their oders
and hearty Ci-opration In our efforts to supply the
best and purest soup for the very lowest possible
price. Respectfully,
SMITH, LUCY & CO.,
105 FItOXT STREKT, S. V.
RING
& SONS
NEW PIANO WAREROOMS,
31 POST STREET,
JlerlianiPt' Inalitute Itui
SAN FRANCISCO.
ELEGAWTl'IAXOS!
An entirely new stock of new and beautiful styles,
liRAM),Sll'AKE AKD I'PBIUIIT.
Every Instrument fully warranted and perfect
satisfaction guaranteed to the purchaser. Pianos
sold on installments If desired.
I,. K. HAMMER,
Nole Asent Paeitie 'a.
"Window Shade
JIAXUFACTORY.
A1
Lt STV1.1.S AM t'O i.O ItS FOR Hltl-
Tnt Ilou e. Banks and Oflleea made
to order, or the OIL PAIXTED Opaque
Uooda, or any material desired. Agreney
for Si-ltl.VU FI.VTVKKS. Orders from
the Interior promptly tilled.
Importer, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In Paper
IInngiiic. Window Shades, aud all
kinds of SHADE MATERIAL.
645 Market Street,
(Two doors West of Palace Hotel), San Francisco.
GOOD NEWS FOR AIL
DR. GLADWIN. DENTIST.
IS NOW ABLE TO ANNOUNCE TO NERVOUS
persons, and any ona having sensitive, decayed
teeth, that with his present mode for treating such
teeth they can be tilled without pain. Beautiful
sets of teeth made that cannot be detected from the
natural teeth. Prices reasonable in all cases. Of
fice, O.'tO Market stieet, esan Francisco, next door
to liald win's Theater.
lTZ. B:E AT-iD,
MACHINE ANJMODEL WORKS.
T EXPERIMENTAL AND FINE SPECIAL MA--J
chlnery. Planing, Gear Cutting, Printing Press.
Brass Band Instruments, end General Machine Re
pairing. Dies, Taps, Punches, Reamers, and other
Tools made to order. Models and Patterns for In
ventors promptly executed In Wood or Metals. 314
Commercial tstreet, between Sansome and Leldes
dorff, (Third Floor). San Francisco.
SAFE DEPOSIT l.OAS OFFICE, Brick
ItnildinK. 321 Kearny Htreet, between
Bush and Pine, .Nan Francisco. Private
Entrance on Belden Place, bet. iKout
KOinery and Kearny, Ruh and Pine
Ntrcets.
Emporium of Choice and ELEUAXT
JEWELRY, all of recent mannTaetnre
and most artistic finish and delfrn,
comprising varieties to nnit the most
fastidious tastes.
Money Loaned on Collateral Security
and I'n redeemed Pledgres for sale.
MAX GOLDBERG.
HILX. JBEOTHEES,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers In
ARTISTS' and WAX MATERIALS,
Oil Paintings, Engravings, Etc.
PICTURES NEATLY FRAMED.
R E STOR I N C
or Oil PsIntiatBT Npeeimlty, no matter
lion badly torn or discolored by old age,
etc. No. SO POST STREET,
cOpp. the Mechaulcs' Institute). 8an Francisoo
FREE ART GALLERY.
LOOKI
BURBANK fe MYEM, Ira
porters and Breeders of Fancy
, Fowls, Pigeons, Rabbits, Dogs,
etc. Also Eggs for hatching
from the finest of Imported
Stock. Eggs and Fowls at re
duced prices.
IirBllA.K MYERS.
-a s44 California Market,
V iH v ft f. i in..
street, s. f. Enclose stamp for Prick List.
rir.axe Mate icAre you unfit thl AdvtrtUi-mrnt.
SAN FRANCISCO COMMERCIAL,
XO. 4 CALIFORNIA STREET.
JOItX 8WIOEUT, JR.,
PVBLisuta.
GHICKE
mm
JOHN T. LITTLE,
Discount Uroker. Real Estate Aarcnt. and
Dealer In United States. Wtate. City and
County Bonds. Gas. Water, Bask,
Itailroad and Other Securities.
412 Montgomery Street.
$4do7ooo
To -Loan on CITY and COUNTRY
REAL ESTATE.
$250,000
To Loan on Gas, Water, Bank, Kail
road and Other Securities..
MERCANTILE PAPER
Discounted, and Money Loaned upon
all kinds of Collaterals.
JOIOT T. MTTJLiE,
412 Montgomery Street,
RAN FRANPISOO.
San Francisco, May 30, 1877.
We. tbe aadenlfoed Wholesale tiro-
eer. take pleasure In remarking tbe in-
er-Hed demand for Bowen's I'remlum
Yeai Pander, and of testifying to the
general satlafaetlon given by this brand i
Sax FB.ANOISCO WELLMAN, PECK ft CO..
, BOOT k SANDERSON.
LEDDEN, WHIPPLE & CO..
HAA8 BROS..
TABER, HAREER & CO.,
3. M. PIKE h CO..
J. A. FOLGER & CO.,
NEWTON BROS, k CO..
CASTLE BROS..
KRC8E k EULEB,
JONES & CO.,
M. EHRMAN k CO.,
F. DANERI fc CO..
M. k C. MANGELS.
TILLMAN k BENDEL,
ALBERT MAU k CO.,
W. W. DODGE k CO.
BaCRamknto ADAMS. McNEI.TX k CO.,
MEBIUS & CO.,
BOOTH k CO.,
MILLIKEN BROS.
International Hotel,
824 and 826 KEARNY ST.,
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL
91.no nuil 92.00 fter lay, su-l lf by
tbo Week.
MOc-he.i with the name of the Flii w bring
Ouescs to the Hotel Free, lie ware tf otlier C'oaubes
mad Runners
II. C. PATRIDG.
Proprlnur
HOT BISCUIT
EVKRV MORNING.
DOOLEY'S YEAST POWDER
WILL DO IT. BUY IT.
W. K. CMAMBKKLAI.V, JR. THOS. A. EOBINWI.V
3 BUSINESS
i
LJl.Li.Ui,
323 Tost Street,
SA tBAM-IStS.
I JfrosiTK UJflOX 8QUARK. THK OLDEST
r auu most complete uommeroial College on the
coast. Elegant balls ; new furniture: thorough In
struction; practical teachers: high standing Willi the
public. Htudents can commence at any time. iay
and Kvenlug HesHions. Circulars free ou application.
CALIFORNIA
PETROLEUM LANDS.
O. H. BJROOKS,
DEALER IN OIL LANDS AND LEASES.
103 CALIFOKXIA STREET,
SAN FRANCISCO.
Information to Country Residents.
The ST. GEORGE HOTEL, 812 Kearny St.,
SAN FRANCISCO. New four-story brick, con
taining IOO beautiful light sunny rooms, newly
furnished, to rent by the Day, Week or Month. In
suite or single, at one-half the usual rates, enabling
one to live In the city in fl ne style for the small sum
of One Dollar per day. TRY IT.
OREGON STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
The Only Direct Line to Portland.
Cabin Passage. 10 Nteerace Passage. 93
PORTLAND leaving San Francisco ev-
ery i-IVii DAYS until further notice (steamships
City of Chester. George W.
Elder and Ajax,
Connecting with Steamers to SITKA and Pl'OET
SOUND, and O. and C. R. It. Co. and Oregon and C.
R. K. Co. through Willamette, Umpqua and Kogue
River Valleys, Oregon.
TICKKTH TO ALL POINTS ON THE O. and C. R
R. SOLD AT REDUCED RATES.
K. VAN OTERE N DORP, Agent.
' 3IO Battery street, San Francioco.
PACIFIC COASTSTEAMSHIP CO.
Carry In- the V. H. 9f all and (he Express.
The Klearant Steamers of this
' f iaaH. n 11. w .
1-ranciKCu. Kvkhv Week for
PORTLAND, OREGON, DIRECT,
And for Santa Crnc. San I.ols Obispo, Santa Bar.
bar a. Ventura. Los Angeles, and San Diego and
other porta about EVERY THIRD DAY.
Tickets sold to all the principal places on the Pa
clHc Slope at
TMJE LOWEKT UATluH.
Don't Bn.T Tlekels by nny other Line
until yon rail at our Tleket Otuee.
"an Franelseo Tleket Offlee XII yfont
GOODALL. PFRirrva i. en
General Agents, No. 10 Market Street,
San Francisco.
GRAND REDUCTION IN PRICES.
M. SHOUT,
. Having Jnst received a Large Invoice of
WEST OF ENGLAND GOODS,
Therefore Informs his patrons that he will make
CLOTHING TO ORDER at the Lowest CASH
PRICE for the next Sixty Day.:
Business Suits to Order, - $25
Pants to Order, - - - $6
Dress Suits to Order, S35 to S50
Commercial St., cor. Leldesdorff,
AMD
No. O lXea.rxiy Street.
EAN FRANCWOO,
FA01FI
POWLETT's
ATMOSPHERIC LETTER
COPYING PRESS,
Compact. Portable. Onrabi. Uua
1-3 Cheaper than an Iron I'rex
Something new. 1 he best thing yet. b
sure to see it before purchasln g an Iron pr
HOPKINS, TAYLOR & CO.,
119 San-some Strkkt, - - Pu Francl.
R'ghts for Sale on Liberal Terms.
-Flrst-Class Agents Wanted.
Tin; sxroirocr b
America!
SEWING MACHINE.
j Thrce-qnarter Lcsi Friction tlma U
onvr Jiarnine.
IT BEATS THEM ALL J
Keir-Tlirei,rtc
Miuttlr;
l-H"-Tlir-ndii,a
-Needle:
K.ittlileit
ltQbblu.
t II !.!
Kuritiii,.
hlinleitl !
ee-THs .xa, t;..r
N fast her- omj:,
kuowu a the
BEST in thcWORLD!
Seo It ! Try It ! Bu It I
Wakkantku toGive ENTIRE SATISKAfTJi.
AMERICAN SEWING ff!ACK!NECQ
O. . WOOD. Jlana-rr,
14 FIFTH STREhT. - - - SA.N FRANCiSo
t-Jool Aeeuts Waatrd In all uno,.,.;,,
pled Territory.
KYE tnd KAtt SPECIALTY "J EfVl O VA L.
r J- PAUOll. Ji
!.. ha r-Uiov. j
to !tl t'lay Mrret. In.
eases of the Kvt and
rweive esiciaj aitenu.ji'
Medical ami Sirr'jtrri! ir-&-tnent
Riven In ; disi-K-c.
Much experience in l Uri.B;
and l.ung diseases. Kicctr;-
jHagnt-iisin xu tiriHrnIiua. -
piled in diseases of the nervous system. To ;-ii;i. .
Urinary diseases much attei ion in iven. Miv
consulted by letter. Address V. J. 1.A I KH. M .
il t'lay Street, San Francisco, lover t'lay -u-.-Savings
Bank). Rooms 1. 1 and 3.
35ts unci Shoes.
Jll .SfT I.I.I VA N. N K. cur. R.;t
tery and Jack-sou sts , San Fran.-is.-..
offers to make t order the rei Fre-i.-fc
Calf Leather ROOTS at from Mo i u
California Leather B-h i.s, - - i-i
Irench Calf Oxford Ti' S, - -Cniifornia
. :i m
Boys' and Children's Hoots anrt ma. it-to ..r'i-i
Persons in the country ordering R.ms mil MH , i.,
tbe amount of $12 or more will l e n:;.m e.l a tac
tion of four percent., to make the extirss chant.-,
iilfht. I sell llootsand Shoes of 1 V O WN M
FACTURK ONLY. Roots and sh-i w r u. u
Positively one price.
PRESCRIPTION FREE.
F
OR Till-: sl'KDUV Cl'KEul Senium! UVtk
Hess, Lost Manhood and all disorder br.,-i:i(li! n
by Indiscretion or excess. Any druist hs it.i-ingredient.
Ir. W. JAQL'KS & CO., :' W. -n::,
hi reel, Cincinnati, Ohio.
DR. STEINHAKT'S
Essence of Life
A PoMiflve Cure g-uarantee.l In all fai-
of Nervous anil Physical lelililj,
Premature Ieeline an-.l I ".x It mist
d Vitality, no matter of tioit
luni; staudiusr or froin lirvt
cm use Produced.
Price A t per bottle, or 4 bottles tin casei MO.
ttSeu t to any addrrs, secure tum i.O-i--i Vkij-.a,
ur-on receipt of price iru O. D.
To be had only of
OR. STFIMI AStT.
At the oU established ottiee, 4" Kkakky sr
San Frunci-tO-j.
Consultation aud Advice, personally at -rlice. tr
by letter . Free
Dr. Tort's New Discovery.
THK UKKATtST A 1)1)1 TIIIX TO JIOl)
-- MKUKAL St It.M'K.
DR. n. TOUCARD, late of F.urope. having &
Voted manv ventre i.f feint,- i, n.. j.......
brated hospitals of Kurope and America, and Iihv
lliR gained n extensive repiicnt'on oil both crnt -nenu
for tho successful treatment of all kind- --I
Private Diseases, now offers to ti.. public the resuu
of bis researches. He has made an entirely tie
discovery in the treatment f Uonorrhaa. Svphih
antiMeruinitl Weakness, bv which her-xn
cure the most complicated cases in half the time re
quired hy the old methods. Medicine and directinm
for any private disease, sent to any address on re
ceipt of $il and full statement of case h writ'e-:
?;uarantee accompanying medicine if desired. i u
orfelt will paid for any case the lir. undertake
and fails to cure. The Dr'a new mode. of trsiit if
diseases of this nature can be conducted privately.
nvi oiuiiitii inierieriUK wun tne patient s husiiie-?
Persons wishlnea Dersonal interview .-Bti ri. . hv
communlcaUne their desire hy ietlr. IViedicin-t
pacKeu secure irom observation. Address, writing
name, city, county and .-State. I)R H. TOL'C'Al'.U.
P. O. Box 1705. H, Francisco. Cal.
DR. Is. J. CZAPKAY'S
rrlvut Medical Institute,
HOO Kenrnv mi.. San Franelseo, Kstabllslied !i:
1S.V, for the Permanent Crre of all Special n-t-t
(Tronic Diseases, as also all Femult Cump'aints mn1
DUeanetofthe Xervoui Sytlrm.
THK IMMKNSK DESTRUCTION OF HUM AM
life annually from xecret and chnlc disea.-s.
caused this old Rnd reliable institution to he estab
lished Hrst In Philadelphia, Penn.. In lsi", and after
wards in Kan Francisco, Cal., in WA, as a pr. vate d-s
pensary. In order to alft.rd the bfllicted tbe hjsl med
ical and surBlcal treatment, for the nhiv and !!
other affections and complaints. Consu)t&t:o:is iti
tne institute or by letter. HtKK
Physical ana Mental Debility.
Vital weakness, nervousness. low siilriis las.siMi.1f.
weakness of the limbs and back, loss of musouisf
power, indisposition and Incanahilit v for l.hi.r mii.I
study, a weak, exhausted feeling, no euergv or cour
age, palpitation of the heart, dullness of apprehen
sion, loss of memory, aversion to society, love "I
solitude, timidity, self-distrust. loss of manhood, diz
ziness, headache, pain, la the side, affections of tlie
eye. pimnies on tbe face, sexual or n-h inHmtm.-
In man or woman, are cured by the justly celebrated
pbyslclan. L.J.mpHAV,)I. I.
His method Of curing, diabase in nw-mlarlr l.t. nu ti
(unknown to others) and hence the great succe-s
ntiruni.tic tin venous, cnronic catarrh, diseased ii
the stomach and kldneva. -liver
successfully treated.
1)11. CZAPKAY.oneof the most successful me.il
cal practitioners on the Pacific count, may be con
sulted confident-ally in reference to the above uuJ
all other complaints at the institute.
o. SOS KEAR.r KT., Nan Fraut-Uro, al-
WTh Doctor offers Free Consultations, and asks
no remuneration utilpsii he enVct enr-a r-hama
moderate. CorumunlcatiiDH t-tricllv corfiieniial
Medicines senthv Rxnreua lilHnxat T I-71P1HI
M. I).. Postofflce Box 64, San Francisco.
r. SPDHEY & CO.,
No. lit Kearny Street,
rjtREAT ALL CHRONIC AND sl'KCiAL
. -Ulseases.
Who may be suffering from the eflect.sof yontliful
follies or tnd excretions, will do well to avail thuii
selves of this the greatest boon ever laid at tlieaitar
oi sunerina; iinmaulty. l)H.MIS5l!.V win Kuara--tee
to forfeit five hundred dollars tur every case ul
seminal weakness or private disease of any kind of
cnaracier wnicn ne undertakes and fans in
He would therefore say to the unfortunate suff'-rei
who may read tbis notice, that you are treadiiK
upon dangerous ground when vou longer delay in
seeking tbe proper remedy for your complainL
You may be in the fiist stage remember you ara
approaching tbe last. If you are bordering upon
tbo last and are suffering some of ils evil effects,
remember that if you obstinately persist in pro
crastination, the time must come when tbe most
Bkllltul physician can render you no assistance,
when the door of hope will be closed against voh:
when no angel of merry ran bring you relief. I"
no case has the Doctor failed of success. Then let
not despair work Itself upon your Imagination, hut
avail yourself of the beneficial results of his treat
ment before your case U beyond the reach of med
ical skill, or before grim death hurtles 3011 to a pre
mature grave.
iiiii.ia;i:i jikx:
There are many of the age of thirty to sixty who
are troubled with too frequent evacuation ot the
bladder, often accompanied by a slight smarting or
burning sensation, and a weakening of the system
In a manner the patientcanno-account for. There
are many men who die of this difficulty, ignorant
of tbe cause, which Is the second stage of seminal
weakness. Dr. S. & Co. will guarantee a perfect
car la all such cases, and a healthy restoration oi
tbe gsnito-urinarv ureina. Omce hours 10 to 4 uJ
6 to ft. Sundays from 10 to 11 a. m. Consultation
Free. Thorough Examlnlion and advice, J5-. ,,
call or address DR. IbPlrXEY dt -u-
Kearny street, dan Francisco.
mm ob mm